Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.
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You need more tact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.William Bolitho
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.
William Bolitho
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of Paris out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.
William Bolitho
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.
William Bolitho
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory usually there remains only an aura of living color
William Bolitho
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